Владимир Владимирович Путин is Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) on October 7, 1952, президент (= president) since Boris Yeltsin stepped down with this speech on December 31, 1999. For the entire 21st century, Putin has been босс or the boss, even when Medvedev was officially in charge for a short time.
Three portraits
Putin viewed from different angles: three portraits from 2017-2018. Two are long (American and British), one is very long (Russian, with subtitles). Links to shorter clips are at the bottom.
The Power of Putin – BBC Documentary
(Astrobum, 2017, 43 m)
Vladimir Putin and His Game – BBC Documentary 2018
(Advexon, 2018, 59 m)
“Putin” – the Documentary Sure to Change Everything You Thought You Knew About Russia’s President
(Vesti News, 2018, 130 m)
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From more recent times (2019), here’s
Who is Vladimir Putin Documentary 2019.
See also
- How Vladimir Putin was changing by 20 years of Power (Putin’s Lifestyle, 2019, 21 m)
- From Agent to President. Very Rare Videos and Photos (Putin’s Lifestyle, 2019, 11 m)
- 8 Facts to know about the Russian President (BBC News, 2018, 2 m)
- The Best of Putin (Game Nation, 2018, 6 m)
- Exclusive Full Unedited Interview of Putin with NBC’s Megyn Kelly (Russia Insight, 2018, 88 m)
- How Putin Is Transforming Russia (Neo, 2017, 10 m)
- 15 Things You Didn’t Know About Vladimir Putin (Alux, 2017, 11 m)
- How Putin Became the Symbol of Russian Power (Bloomberg, 2017, 6 m)
- From spy to president: The rise of Vladimir Putin (Vox, 2017, 9 m)
- 10 most firm Putin’s speeches (Russka, 2016, 29 m)
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The end of this month marks the 25th anniversary of the resignation of Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) as President of Russia. It also marks the beginning of a quarter century of Putin.
The Netherlands holds a unique place in the Russian imagination. This is how our country, and we, are viewed through Russian eyes.
An interview becomes legendary when it gets its own page on Wikipedia. On February 6, 2024, Tucker Carlson spoke with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. The report (127 minutes) offers a good, or at least broad, opportunity to hear the Russian perspective on the war against Ukraine.
What we would call ‘tokkies’ or ‘gabbers’, and what elsewhere might be referred to as white trash or hooligans – in Russia, these are called gopniki. Folk culture in a tracksuit.
Since the age of sixteen, Игорь Мухин (1961) has been taking photographs. Armed with a Смена-8М camera, he started his journey. So, when he found himself among artists and musicians in the 1980s, he already had a trained eye – and a better camera. Mukhin (sometimes Moukhin) witnessed major changes and began documenting them.
Freedom of speech is decreasing everywhere, though the reasons vary by region. Meanwhile, Big Tech’s power is growing, along with its interference. In this new era, a nearly forgotten Soviet answer is reemerging: samizdat, the underground DIY press and distribution network.
